Dr. Maanas Jain

Democratizing access to high-tech, expensive medical devices.

MBBS, AIIMS Jodhpur, India
Internal Medicine, Rutgers University, USA

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I cannot call this clip from a RPSC coaching video someone shared with me anything other than ironically hillarious 😂 .

The reason is quite simple. I was infamous at AIIMS Jodhpur for having zero knowledge about current affairs.

During the AIIMS-UG entrance exam, which used to have a general knowledge section, I didn't bother trying to answer any of the current affair questions and only attempted the mental ability ones.

And this is why I hated general knowledge questions. So I sincerely apologize to all RPSC aspirants for creating UVEAL and pray this question never comes in the exam. This was a side effect I had not predicted 😂 .

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Amazon made buying more convenient so people could spend more time doing something “productive.”

We ended up watching more netflix.

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Ambulances in India can now have the same intubation standards as in the US with UVEAL.

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It's kind of cute how all these experienced physicians and surgeons think AI won’t take over our jobs.

It's endearing how these sweet summer children feel any company or lawmaker cares about what doctors think.

(Meanwhile Stryker is already testing their surgical robots that are successfully performing independent surgeries on animals.)

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This teacher's day, we should discuss which teachers are good teachers.

A professor's job in a medical college is not to teach medicine or surgery.

It is to manipulate students into falling in love with their speciality.

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Because we had created UVEAL, a purposefully low-cost medical device designed to give affordable access to videolaryngoscopy, we didn’t have the exorbitant funds to pay lakhs to speak in conferences about our device.

But there was one thing we had – an interesting story behind our device. It was a story of how a a homeschooler who loved creating, decided to go into medicine, got an All-India-rank of 201, went to AIIMS, had an idea, and despite everyone telling him it was a bad business plan, without any funding, created a CDSCO licensed commercially available medical device being used by 150+ doctors across India, and was going to the US for residency to learn more about medical device development to bring new ideas back to India. Not everyone recognised that, but some people did.

One of them was Dr. Ganesh tendulkar Sir, who invited me to speak at BSACON. He didn’t ask us for money, just our time, and our story. 

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One interesting comment to hear when we pitch UVEAL, our novel device which gives videolaryngoscopy access at a fraction of the cost of videolaryngoscopes:

Doctors say “We don’t need videolaryngoscopy like the doctors in the USA or Europe, we’re skilled enough.”

I'm not sure about the point of the statement, but is this also a reason why India struggles to develop new medical technology?

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BSACON, a conference organised by the ISA Borivali chapter, showed us something had changed. We didn’t need to request time on stage or pay for a talk – we were invited. I was initially allotted just 5 minutes to speak about UVEAL, but I eventually spoke for 20 minutes.

Everyone we used to ask for advice for increasing UVEAL’s reach recommended the same thing, “speak at conferences.” There was only one problem, just like videolaryngoscopes, conferences were expensive. Usually, speaking about a medical device on stage or having a stall at a major conference meant paying for a sponsored talk, which cost in the lakhs. Established medical device companies, most of which are international, can afford it. We couldn't. As a bootstrapped startup, we simply did not have the funds to pay lakhs just to talk about what we had built. And because of that, most conferences would not give us a platform.

The cost of most video-laryngoscopes started at around 3-4 lakhs. And everyone told us to price our device just below that, because it would still be the most affordable option. We ignored them and priced it starting from under 10,000 rupees, because our motto had always been to democratize videolaryngoscopy, which was why we had priced UVEAL so low, but we weren’t being given the opportunity to democratize it – until BSACON.

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Airway safety shouldn’t come with a ₹17L anxiety attached.

EM/anesthesia folks — comment “UVEAL”

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A patient can’t breathe.

The doctor reaches for the video laryngoscope.

And for half a second, the thought isn’t “save this airway.”

It’s “don’t break the ₹17,00,000 machine.”

That’s the part of this story nobody talks about.

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We got tired of hearing this story on repeat. So we built the fix.

UVEAL turns the laryngoscope you already own — the one you already trust — into a video laryngoscope. In 10 seconds. Same blade. No new technique. No battery. Nothing to be afraid of dropping.

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What do you do when your videolaryngoscope dies mid-airway
Happened to a senior ED consultant. Every airway team has this story.
We built UVEAL — turns any laryngoscope into a videolaryngoscope using any device you have. No batteries, no charging.
Already in use across India.

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UVEAL converts a standard laryngoscope into a videolaryngoscope using your smartphone, and even has a backup light source.
No dedicated monitor. No waiting for charging or battery replacement.
Just quick assembly and immediate visualization when it matters most.

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The Videolaryngoscope was ready. The patient was ready. The batteries weren't.
A senior consultant from the Emergency Department at Apollo Hospitals Ahmedabad shared this experience with us. And every airway team has encountered some version of it -

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Videolaryngoscope batteries run out, power sources fail and screens dim unexpectedly. When that happens in the middle of Intubation, precious seconds are lost
In critical airways, Visibility is Critical and Every Second Counts.
That's why we built UVEAL by Quintubate